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" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

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" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

" Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me. "

" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. "

" I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

" I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision. "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. "

" Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit. "

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

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" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "